#TREMULOUS SPEECH SERIES#
The series offers work that's newbut not always fully formed. Washington Dance Directions provides local professionals with this unsettling but essential experience. Her work has appeared in Philadelphia Stories and Common Ground Review.Seeing is doubting, at least for the dancer watching a tape of what he's just performed or for the choreographer transferring movement he created in the studio onto a proscenium stage. She is a poetry reader at The Literary Review. She recently graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University where she obtained her MFA in Poetry. It pulls at the strings of everyday normality, of loom and glow.Īminah Abutayeb is an Adjunct Professor at William Paterson University. His poetry navigates twists and turns that reveals the selfishness of the world. Throughout Tremulous Hinge, Giannelli aims to convey the struggles of communication within society by painting an image of the roles light and dark play.
He continues:Īnd never stoops to espresso or methamphetamine. The poems flip expectations by speaking about difficulties and depicting the fixes as if their issues are human-like. The speaker attempts to plays with the image of reality by covering up any wants, creating a façade for society. It maneuvers through light and dark trying to find a way out without being discovered. What’s especially great about these three lines is the way Giannelli begins and ends lines with “my insomnia.” This repetition focuses on the real struggle and how insomnia tries different tactics to overcome its own wants and needs. …my insomnia holds a flashlight under the covers-īut to reduce the visible world to an amendable gleam, My insomnia. This time, insomnia is being personified: The poem, “My Insomnia,” continues the task of personification and how light is used for a purpose. It acts like a visitor that enters when needed and exits when no longer needed. Light has boundaries and restriction that it places upon itself. He goes as far as to personify light by expressing that the light makes a conscious decision. In order to cast an escape route, there must be darkness. It becomes of importance for the light to interact with the dark due to the creation of shadow. Giannelli makes it known that light does not reach dark places but rather creates the start of darkness. In these lines comes the feeling of discomfort and uncertainty through the presence of light. In “How the Light Is Spent,” Giannelli exposes the light attempting to creep out. This constant train of thought dims the light in words and creates heaviness that weighs down the pureness of the speaker’s ideas.ĭarkness travels through the other poems. The speaker dissects and analyzes language to a point where the unstructured becomes a pattern of thought, adjustment, and statement. Shadow speaks to the surface of the earth but only presents itself when and where it is asked to it has to maneuver swiftly and silently without being heard. The disappearance and reappearance of shadow, the space where light and dark collide, is connected to the ins and outs of its voice.
There is an emptiness hovering in the atmosphere however, it is also freeing and liberating since it is strategically planned out. Speaking is a skill that is present, but the environment does not suit those who are outspoken. The poem exhibits by a dark feeling of emptiness and disappearance. The wording is fascinating because the speaker is not saying I can’t, but rather “ I couldn’t,” which implies a kind of resistance instead of restriction. Form and content are married since the line breaks create the stutter and loss of words that the speaker has in mind. There is tension in the use of enjambment but also in the meaning. When there is light, what the speaker wants to say is not expected. The connotation behind dark is alone therefore, during that darkness, words are meant to actually roll out. Through the suppression, a time of freedom is created, hence, light verses dark. Therefore, being alone builds a safe place to speak out:ĭialing into the wording and the structure “ Stutter” displays that what the speaker is intentionally building is this idea of suppression in speech and behavior amongst society. The very first poem, “Stutter,” encapsulates stuttering in language, and the lack of speech leads to other decisions and judgments made by humans. Delirious and dreary, this book illustrates the mission of revealing the illuminous and nebulous. He is able to display the conflict of time and language in the minutia of everyday life. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017)Īdam Giannelli seizes the fine line between light and dark while exposing the movement through language in his book Tremulous Hinge.
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